An apophlegmatic.

See Apothegm.

A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim.

Same as Apothegmatic.

The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape.

A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium.

A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.

One liable to, or affected with, apoplexy.

Relating to apoplexy; affected with, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke.

Resembling apoplexy.

Apoplexy.

Affected with apoplexy.

Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.

Doubting; skeptical.

A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc.

A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata.

Without pores.

On or towards the port or left side; -- said of the helm.

Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.

A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, /I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here./

Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.

An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.

To apostatize.

Apostatical.

Apostate.

To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered.

To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus.

The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration.

Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme.

An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter.

A marginal note on a letter or other paper; an annotation.

Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the gospel.

The office or dignity of an apostle.

The dignity, office, or mission, of an apostle; apostleship.

A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles.

Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times, or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the apostolic age.

In an apostolic manner.

Apostolicity.

The state or quality of being apostolical.

A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of /Paradise Lost./

Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.

To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe.

See Aposteme.

One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.

The result or issue.

Relating to the casting of horoscopes.

One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes; a druggist; a pharmacist.

of or pertaining to the apothecium.

The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.

Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy.

A collector or maker of apothegms.

To utter apothegms, or short and sententious sayings.

The perpendicular from the center to one of the sides of a regular polygon.

The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among, /the gods;/ deification.

To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.

A place on the south side of the chancel in the primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc. A dressing room connected with a public bath.

The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between /2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

Intended to protect from evil.

A decoction or infusion.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a decoction.

Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.

Terror; dismay.

struck with fear, dread, or consternation.

Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident.

Depression occasioned by terror; dismay.

a hardy breed of horse developed in western North America and characteristically having a spotted rump.

The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.

A prince to whom an appanage has been granted.

Preparation.

Things provided as means to some end.

To make or get (something) ready; to prepare.

wearing clothes.

Appearance.

Appearance.

An heir apparent.

Visibly.

Plainness to the eye or the mind; visibleness; obviousness.

The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.

Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral.

Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.

A hand open and extended so as to show the palm.

To pay; to satisfy or appease.

To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach.

An accuser.

Accusation.

An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for re/xamination or review. The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected. The right of appeal. An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public. An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver. See Approvement.

Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable.

An appellant.

One who makes an appeal.

That appeals; imploring.

Appearance.

The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.

One who appears.

Apparently.

Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable.

To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst.

The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification.

One who appeases; a pacifier.

Tending to appease.

A tap or stamp of the foot as a warning of intent to attack; -- called also attack.

Appealable.

Capability of appeal.

One who accuses another of felony or treason. One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal.

A person or prosecuted for a crime. [Obs.] See Appellee.

The act of appealing; appeal.

A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.

After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.

The quality of being appellative.

Containing an appeal.

The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant. The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor.

The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime. One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices.

See Appanage.

To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.

Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.

Something appendant.

Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.

State of being appendant; appendance.

Of or like an appendix.

To append.